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Southern Cultures
2.3-4 (Fall/Winter
1996)
Southern Cultures
2.2 (Summer 2000)
Southern Cultures
2.1 (Spring 2000)
Southern Cultures
2.3-4 (Fall/Winter 1996)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
Looking Back
by Hodding Carter
Can a prominent Mississippi liberal love the Battle Flag? The answer
may surprise you.
Tupelo, Mississippi: Place and Name
by Thomas Harvey
Tupelo is one of the most-mentioned place names in southern geography.
The author takes a look at Tupelo’s evolving image.
Twistin’ at the Fais Do-Do: South Louisiana’s Swamp Pop Music
by Shane K. Bernard
Like zydeco and Cajun music, swamp pop is vital to the cultural identity
of Cajun and Creole country.
“Where the Sun Set Crimson and the Moon Rose Red”:
Writing and Appalachia and the Kentucky Mountain Feuds
by Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee
Convinced in advance that mountain people were benighted and degenerate,
outsiders shaped the lore of feuding to suit their own purposes.
The Affable Journalist as Social Critic:
Ben Robertson and the Early Twentieth-Century South
by Lacy K. Ford Jr.
The distinguished South Carolina journalist grappled with the issues
of class, race, and industrialization in the South of the 1930s and 1940s.
The Novel as Social History: Erskin Caldwell’s
God’s Little Acre and Class Relations in the New South
by Bryant Simon
The author explores deep divisions between early twentieth-century
South Carolina’s farmers and mill hands as seen in the work of Erskine
Caldwell and in recent labor history.
Books
Eric R. Burner's
And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights
in Mississippi
John Dittmer's
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
reviewed by Brian Ward
George C. Rable's
The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics
reviewed by Lacy K. Ford Jr.
Alan Draper's
Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement
in the South, 1954-1968
reviewed by John Salmond
William A. Link's
William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education
reviewed by Clarence L. Mohr
Bernard E. Powers Jr.'s
Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885
reviewed by Charles Pete Banner-Haley
Arthur Mann Kaye, editor
Good Country People: An Irregular Journal of the Cultures of Eastern
North Carolina
Shelby Stephenson, photographs by Roger Manley
Plankhouse
reviewed by James Applewhite
R. B. Rosenburg's
Living Moments: Confederate Soldiers’ Homes in the New South
reviewed by Karen L. Cox
Marie Tyler-McGraw's
At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia, and Its People
reviewed by Christopher Silver
Barbara J. Garrity-Blake's
The Fish Factory: Work and Meaning for Black and White Fishermen of
the American Menhaden Industry
reviewed by Michael Luster
Rachel Liebling's
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music, VHS video format
reviewed by Todd Moye
South Polls Happy New Year!
by John Shelton Reed
Examining the persistence of a pyrotechnic custom.
Southward, Ho! Swampland Jewels
by Steve Green
A firsthand look at the artistic and business records of south Louisiana’s
Goldband enterprises.
Not Forgotten Porch-Sitting as a Creative Southern Tradition
by Trudier Harris, photographs by Roland L. Freeman
Front porch-sitting is not what it used to be, but some traditions
need preserving.
Southern Cultures
2.2 (Winter 1996)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
The American Civil War in Economic Perspective: Basic Questions and Some
Answers
by Peter A. Coclanis
Estimating the Civil War’s cost can be a difficult and unseemly
business, yet economists and historians keep arguing over the figure.
Forever Faithful: The Southern Historical Society and Confederate Historical
Memory
by Richard D. Starnes
This campaign was bloodless, fought with pen rather than sword, but
the ex-Confederate officers who founded the Southern Historical Society
were determined to advance their cause.
The Confederate Battle Flag in American History and Culture
by John M. Coski
Through more than three dozen photographs, the author reveals the
battle flag’s history and its symbolism.
The Confederate Flag and the Meaning of Southern History
by Kevin Thornton
The author argues that the time has come to give up the Confederate
battle flag as a public symbol. A sense of southern identity, though,
should be preserved.
Books
William Marvel's
Andersonville: The Last Depot
reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer
Jim Cullen's
The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past
reviewed by David Glassberg
Michael O’Brien's
An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South,
1827-67
reviewed by Christopher Morris
Michael Shirley's
From Congregation Town to Industrial City: Culture and Social Change
in a Southern Community
reviewed by Tom Hanchett
Nancy MacLean's
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
reviewed by John Herbert Roper
Adam Fairclough's
Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972
reviewed by Lawrence N. Powell
David S. Cecelski's
Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black
Schools in the South
reviewed by Michele Foster
John Shelton Reed's
Surveying the South: Studies in Regional Sociology
reviewed by John David Smith
South Polls Will the South Do It Again?
by John Shelton Reed
This time our pollster asks the question, “Do you agree or disagree
that, if it could be done without war, the South would be better off as
a separate country today?
Not Forgotten The Confederate Battle Flag: Symbol of
Southern Heritage and Identity
an excerpt by Clyde N. Wilson
Driving Dixie Down: Removing the Confederate Flag from Southern State
Capitals
an excerpt by James Forman Jr.
Southern Cultures
2.1 (Spring 1996)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
Memory and the South
by Edward L. Ayers
What Is Social Memory?
by Scot A. French
Aunt Jemima Explained: The Old South, the Absent Mistress, and the Slave
in a Box
by Maurice M. Manring
Reflections on the Death of Emmett Till
by Anne Sarah Rubin
“I Ventured to Say I Was a Virginian”: Vachel Lindsay and
the South
by William R. Irwin
The Sacrament of Remembrance: Donald Davidson and the Southern Past
by Paul V. Murphy
Books
Eric J. Sundquist's
To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
reviewed by Joel Williamson
Charles B. Dew's
Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge
reviewed by Winthrop D. Jordan
Holly Beachley Brear's
Inherit the Alamo: Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine
reviewed by James E. Crisp
Gregg Cantrell's
Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent
reviewed by Paul D. Escott
Nina Silber's
The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900
reviewed by James L. Peacock
Janette Thomas Greenwood's
Bittersweet Legacy: The Black and White "Better Classes"
in Charlotte, 1850-1910 reviewed by Frye Gaillard
J. Lawrence Brasher's
The Sanctified South: John Lakin Brasher and the Holiness Movement
reviewed by Donald G. Mathews
Joy J. Jackson's
Where the River Runs Deep: The Story of a Mississippi River Pilot
reviewed by Lynn Roundtree
Harvey L. Klevar's
Erskine Caldwell: A Biography
reviewed by Fred Hobson
E. Culpepper Clark's
The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of
Alabama
reviewed by Tinsley E. Yarbrough
South Polls “You-all” Spoken Here
by John Shelton Reed
Southward, Ho! Grassroots Environmental History: The
Southern Federal Writers’ Project Life Histories as a Source
by Jerrold Hirsch
Not Forgotten The Life of a Southerner (in Drawings):
An Interview with Jesse Whitaker
by Gretchen Givens
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